Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. At no time in history has a man defended the liberties of so many with so little...
...straight anti-Communist line. To him, it seemed essential that the U.S. should oppose Communist aggression wherever it threatened. The only criterion should be the ability of the U.S. to supply aid and the ability of the recipient to use it. Said he: "It doesn't matter whether Chiang is a benevolent despot-which he is-or a republican or a democrat. The fact is, the man has fought Communism all his life. He stood by us as an ally in the war when he might have accepted favorable peace terms from Japan...
There was a dangerous oversimplification in that theory. If carried to extremes, it would bind the U.S. to help any unsavory opportunist professing antiCommunism. But Wedemeyer saw no such danger in Chiang's case: "I personally think he is a fine character. He is the logical leader of China today. I went there prepared not to like him, from things I had heard. He needs our help and he should...
...next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five (or at most ten) select universities. To presidents of the 138 lesser colleges, Hu's plan looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry of Education, who want more, not fewer, colleges for China's 400 million people. Says Hu Shih: "I am basically a historian, and as a historian I do not expect miracles...
...while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China it is helping Communism to destroy our Pacific ally. Chiang Kai-shek's government is admittedly ugly and confused in action, she says, but if the U.S. waits for a democratic China before giving aid, the Communists will have won all. Once China is free from civil war and helped economically by the U.S., Chiang will come through...